A team of archaeologists from the University of Girona has identified several ceramic fragments in the Roman villa of Collet, located on the Girona coast, which belonged to a large vessel decorated with a handle ending in two snake heads. The piece, dated to the Augustan period (27 BC–14 AD), displays characteristics that link it […]

In 1919, when someone began to carefully examine the binding of an 8th-century codex preserved in the Chapter Archive of the Cathedral of Barcelona, they discovered that the back cover hid something more than leather and stitches. Beneath the skin, placed in folds, appeared ten fragments of papyrus. More than a century later, six of […]